TIPS: Disable touchpad under Fedora

Will you have this experience in Fedora? When you are typing the code, you accidentally touch the touchpad, And the mouse throws. With syndaemon, you can avoid your troubles. syndaemon can shield the touchpad within two seconds after you press the keyboard. below is the manual of syndaemon: Namesyndaemon-aprogramthatmonitorskeyboardactivityanddisablesthetou

Will you have this experience in Fedora? When you are typing the code, you accidentally touch the touchpad, And the mouse throws.

With syndaemon, you can avoid your troubles. syndaemon can shield the touchpad within two seconds after you press the keyboard. below is the manual of syndaemon:

Name
Syndaemon-a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.

Syntax
Syndaemon [-I idle-time] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K]

Description
Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the pointer that cocould lead to giving focus to the wrong window. This program needs SHMConfig "on" in your XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics Touchpad configuration.

Options
-I
How many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad. (default is 2.0 s ).
-D
Start as a daemon, ie in the background.
-P
Create a pid file with the specified filename. A pid file will only be created if the program is started in daemon mode.
-T
Only disable tapping and scrolling, not mouse movements, in response to keyboard activity.
-K
Ignore modifier keys when monitoring keyboard activity.
-K
Like-k but also ignore Modifier + Key combos.
Environment Variables
DISPLAY
Specifies the X server to contact.
Caveats
It doesn't make much sense to connect to a remote X server, because the daemon will then monitor the remote server for keyboard activity, but will disable the touchpad on the local machine.

Authors
Peter Osterlund .

This man page was written by Mattia Dongili
See Also
Synclient (1), synaptics (5)

Put syndaemon in/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common.